Lexmark Platinum Pro Wins CES Award

Date: February 15, 2010

Lexington, KY -- From a release issued from Lexmark, their printing solution for specialty chemical giant Rhodia was a great success, even after just one year. Prior to the partnership with Lexmark, they were managing a multi-vendor, heterogeneous, aging printer fleet which had both laser and inkjet printers. They then proceeded to launch a project called PRIMA (Print Management) with three major objectives: reduce costs, improve user satisfaction, and reduce the environmental impact of their printers.

Lexmark met these needs head on through support for Rhodia in changing print management and proposing printing strategies customized for each entity inside the company. Within a year, Lexmark specifically was able to:

• The printing devices were consolidated and upgraded on 13 sites. The printer fleet went from 3,170 devices (83 percent personal printers, 17 percent network printers) to 630 new devices (12 percent personal printers, 88 percent network printers), which represents a reduction of 80 percent.
• By upgrading the printer fleet, printing the same number of pages consumes 68 percent less energy, and the number of ink cartridges has been reduced by 25 percent.
• The number of pages printed on operations sites has been reduced by 43 percent whereas the initial objective was 10 percent.
• Seventy-seven percent of the pages printed in black are printed two-sided, which reduced the paper consumption by about 60 percent.

Lexmark’s solution almost doubled the financial goal initially set by Rhodia to reduce costs by about 20 percent. The environmental impact of their machines was altered through the change from personal printers to shared devices, and double-sided printing has become standard practice.

BY ADAM HAIGH, Editor